Is there a way my SSH server, and everything under it (including bash) can be always available under heavy load ?
Maybe it could be some kind of a critical path, all in memory, with a dedicated CPU ...

I have a single core NAS My Live Duo. It runs Debian lenny release.
I found via htop utility that it constantly use 100% of red cpu without any noticeable process to eat it.
Than I checked via iostat ...

I'm using iostat to get the current disk load each second with iostat -dx 1 (specially, %util column). However, I'd like to put this in a bash script and control the interval with the watch command ...

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1, with VirtualMin 4.08.gpl GPL and 2 CPU cores.
Pretty much all the time for the last few weeks, it's been running at well above load average of 5, usually up closer ...

I have an rsync cron job which is pushing the server load and triggering monitor alerts. If I set the job to be run with a high nice level, would that effectively reduce the impact it has on system ...

What does it mean when I have a non-trivial load and when I run top, there are no processes using non-trivial amounts of cpu time?
For example, I have a server with this top line:
top - 10:10:59 up ...

Just now I was forced to remotely reboot my CentOS 6.3 system due to a ultra high load (75!) that paralyzed the system. This is a web/mail server that serves a wordpress blog (mySQL + PHP).
Is there ...

I found that my "PCI Adapter" overheats when load is above 4.0 (having 4 cores). It does NOT overheat when the load is below 4.0 (but I had an overclocked memory that was causing trouble as I explain ...

We own a few servers, each with about 100 users on it, some with 1 domain, some with a few.
I'm looking for a script which runs in the background which can provide information about which users uses ...

I'm doing some load testing on a new dedicated web server, and after a certain amount of strain is put on the server I have to wait a minute for the one-minute load average to climb back down so that ...

By running top, htop, uptime, etc. we can see the load average as three values indicating the average load for the last 1/5/15 minutes (well not really, but that isn't the question here).
Sometimes ...

I am working on my newly installed wine. when i tried to run a game , called "road rash" through wine, my screen resolution got change and after few seconds game stop working. Then my most of image ...

So I develop my server app and some client apps for it. After each rebuild I start my server (which tends to load qup all services for something like 2 seconds) and then I start my clients... So his ...

My understanding of load average lead me to be quite shocked with my current system. The CPU in my workstation is an i7 with hyperthreading enabled, and cat /proc/cpuinfo produces 4 'cpu's.
That all ...

What tools and methods can be used to stress test a Linux-based router/proxy? On the router Squid, Apache Modproxy and Privoxy are installed. The purpose of the stress test is to determine which proxy ...

I'm observing a high load average on a certain machine (about 9) in all three load fields. I understand load as the number of processes in state "run" / currently desiring CPU time. Am I correct at ...